During his campaign, Trump made immigration a significant focus of his campaign, giving a more detailed agenda on immigration than on any other issue in his political platform. Since the election that brought the Republicans back into the White House, which of Trump's promises have made it to the House and Senate floors?
A policy brief from the Migration Policy Institute that assessed the major policy shifts that have occurred since January 2017 via executive orders, agency memorandum, and changes to existing programs and practice is included below. The White House has made a significant down payment on Trump's immigration agenda, one of the most bold and opinionated of any chief executive in decades. The courts have limited their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. Congress have slowed or stalled some of the administration’s agenda. The other branches of the government are not trying to let him get his way. "Among its major actions on immigration during 2017, the administration: He banned nationals of eight countries, most majority-Muslim, from entering the United States, reduced refugee admissions to the lowest level since the resettlement program was created in 1980. Reversed the decline in arrests of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. interior that had occurred during the last two years of the Obama administration he also cancelled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which is currently giving work authorization and temporary relief of deportation to about 690,000 unauthorized immigrants brought to the United States as children and he ended the designation of Temporary Protected Status for nationals of Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan, and signaled that Hondurans and possibly Salvadorans may also lose their work authorization and protection from removal in 2018."The administration’s support for legislation to eliminate legal immigration and reshape the selection of immigrant workers has yet to gain significant backing among the members of Congress. Lawmakers have refused to provide the billions of dollars needed to fence off the border or the additional thousands of Border Patrol agents and immigration officers. At this point im just shocked and disappointed this hasn't been called out on a bigger scale and was just brought to attention for a couple months and then forgotten.
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April 2019
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